Nickname:	Beautiful Hunk of Man / The Hunk
Known for:	Kiss of Death, The Robe, My Darling Clementine
Birth name:	Victor Joseph Maturi
Birthday:	29 January 1915, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Height:	6' 2½" (1.89 m)

Daughter, Victoria, born [1975] Victor Mature was a petty officer in the Coast Guard during World War II. He served on the troop transport ship Admiral Mayo. His service carried him to the North Atlantic, including Normandy, and the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and many islands in the South Pacific. He was on Okinawa when the A-bomb was dropped on Japan. In "Zarak" (1956) he played perhaps the only title character in the movies to be flogged to death Victor's father Marcello Gelindo Mature, a knife sharpener and cutler, was born in 1877 in the town of Pinzolo, in the Italian Tyrolean region of Trentino which was then under the rule of Austria-Hungary, and returned under Italian sovereignty in 1918 after WW I. He emigrated to the US with his brothers in 1912, and settled in Louisville, Kentucky. Applying for membership in the swank Los Angeles Country Club at the heighth of his fame, Mature was turned down and told that the golfing facility did not accept actors as members. His response: "I'm not an actor - and I've got 67 films to prove it!" Attended the Kentucky Military Academy. One of his classmates was future fellow actor, Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo and Thurston Howell III in Gilligan's Island). He attributed his success in Biblical spectacles to his ability to "make with the holy look." Was color-blind. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 389-390. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Attended the Kentucky Military Academy. One of his classmates was future fellow actor, Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo and Thurston Howell III in Gilligan's Island). In Zarak he played perhaps the only title character in the movies to be flogged to death. Although several sources suggest that Mature's family name was originally Maturi, U.S. and Austrian birth, immigration, census, and other records, as well as Victor Mature himself, are quite clear that as of 1877, the family name was Mature. In her autobiography, Esther Williams details a passionate affair she had with Victor Mature during the filming of "Million Dollar Mermaid." According to her, her marriage was on the rocks, she needed love, and Mature provided all she wanted. Never one to claim great acting credentials, when turned down for membership in an exclusive country club because "we don't admit actors," he replied, "Im NOT an actor, and have the reviews to prove it!"

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